Wyatt Reed was put on a dystopian kill list run by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry bearing the name Myrotvorets less than two weeks before his hotel was bombed by the Ukrainian military.
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Back in November I wrote that China’s Zero Covid policy was the right thing done the wrong way. Briefly after, consequent to some protests against Zero-Covid, China basically abandoned the policy.
The main problem is the same that exists in almost every country: even the most competent elites in the world today are, when not graded on a scale, incompetent buffoons incapable of running anything properly. Zero-Covid should have been about making necessary infrastructure changes to clean air so that over time restrictions could be eased.
CEPR’s researchers continue to lead the charge on tracking unionization in the US and outlining the many benefits it has, particularly for marginalized workers. Research Associate Hayley Brown has analyzed the importance of unionization in improving working conditions and increasing pay for disabled workers and young workers. Her report last month showed how Hispanic workers […]
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I just wanted to make two quick comments about data in the United States. The first is about a new rent series from researchers at the Cleveland Fed, the second is about labour data.Bond Economics
Last week, I was in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. The weather had turned cold and I couldn’t help noticing what an inhospitable place it had become for the city’s homeless and dispossessed. Once upon a time, anyone was allowed to be in the train station at any hour. Now, there were signs everywhere announcing that you needed a ticket to be there. Other warning signs indicated that you could only sit for 30 minutes at a time at the food-court tables, while barriers had been placed where benches used to be to make it that much harder to congregate, no less sit down. With winter descending on the capital, all this struck me as particularly cruel when it came to... Read more
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Well… I’d say MMT people can’t use that figurative language any more…
BOJ rather saying: “don’t fight the Fed!”…
The Bank of Japan made a surprise decision to let the 10-year Japanese government bond rise as high as 0.5% from a previous cap of 0.25%
— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) December 20, 2022
The central bank had set a target range around zero for the benchmark government bond yield since 2016 https://t.co/HoGqut5Oyp
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